Pathfinders

Presents a collective biography of sixteen black men and women who have left their mark on history, from the eighteenth century throughout the twentieth, including James Forten, a powder boy and prisoner of war in the American Revolution who became captain of his own ship and an abolitionist; Richard Potter, who became a great performing ventriloquist, magician, and hypnotist; and Katherine Johnson, a mathematician and physicist who helped make the calculations to launch successful Apollo missions.